HOPE: COVID-19 vaccine may be ready by 2020 end: WHO Chief

Geneva, Switzerland: A vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday, without elaborating.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressing the end of a two-day meeting of its Executive Board on the pandemic, said: “We will need vaccines and there is hope that by the end of this year we may have a vaccine. There is hope.”

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